Janitorial Service Provisions, including:

Rooms for male and female help.

Rubbish bin.

Slop sink closets.

Ash storage.

Coal storage.

Boiler room.

Supply rooms.

Switchboard room.

Vacuum cleaner room.

Workroom.

Library with library workroom.

Twenty-four recitation rooms in the ultimate building, each to seat 35 pupils.

Chorus room with locker room for musical instruments.

General science room.

Two study rooms.

One biology laboratory, together with storage and preparation room. One chemistry laboratory, together with instructor's room and preparation room.

One physics laboratory, together with instructor's room and preparation room.

One dark room to be utilized by both chemistry and physics students.

Auditorium to seat approximately 1,000 to 1,200 with balcony, dressing rooms, orchestra pit, picture booth, and stage.

One gymnasium for boys, approximately 50 ft. x 80 ft., with a director's room, dressing rooms, locker rooms, shower baths, storerooms, and toilet.

One gymnasium for girls, approximately 45 ft. x 70 ft., with a director's room, dressing rooms, locker rooms, shower baths, storerooms, and toilet.

One locker room for visiting athletic teams.

One lunch room to seat approximately 300 children, with kitchen and serving space.

Commercial suite, to consist of bookkeeping and typewriting rooms, with provision for supplies.

Household arts unit, to consist of two kitchen units, with ample refrigerator and storage space, one homemaking suite, including bathroom and bedroom, and one sewing room.

Industrial arts unit, to provide space for auto-mechanics, mechanical drawing, sheet metal instruction, printing shop, bench room for woodworking, and one cabinetmaking room, together with the auxiliary spaces needed for these shops.

The preliminary plans drawn by the architect, following the instructions received from the superintendent, are shown in Diagrams 1, 2, and 3.

Assignment

1. Make a careful review of the drawings of the architect indicating all those features where you, as superintendent of schools, think changes should be made. Write the reasons for the changes which you propose. Indicate the recommendations for improvement which you will make in each instance where a change has been suggested.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

DONOVAN, J. J. ET AL. School Architecture-Principles and Practices. Macmillan,

1921.

DRESSLAR, F. B. American School Buildings. U. S. Bureau of Education, Bulletin, 1924, No. 17, Washington, D. C.

NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION. Report of Committee on School House Planning. National Education Association, Washington, D. C., 1925.

STRAYER, G. D. AND ENGELHARDT, N. L. Standards for High Schools. Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1924.

PROBLEM 26

CHECKING PRELIMINARY PLANS FOR A HIGH

SCHOOL

Problem: The architect for the new high school in Morrisburg, N. K., has submitted his preliminary floor plans to the superintendent of schools for suggestions and recommendations. The plans include all rooms for which the schedule had been determined at a previous conference.

You, as superintendent of schools, have received these plans as shown in Diagrams 1, 2, and 3. A site of twenty acres has been selected by the Board of Education for this school. The frontage of the site is three city blocks of 300 feet each.

Assignment

1. Develop a checking list and indicate thereon your criticisms for each room with respect to location, accessibility, economy in planning, ease of administration, circulation of students, desirability of relationship to other units, and the other important problems which must be considered at this time.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

CASPARY, C. L. The Camden High School, Camden, N. J. American School Board Journal, 57:38-41, 79, October, 1918.

CHALLMAN, S. A. High School, Murfreesboro, Tenn. National School Building Journal, 2:3:10-12, June, 1920.

COLEMAN, J. M. Arlington Heights Township (Illinois) High School Building. American School Board Journal, 69:63-65, 143, July, 1924.

DACY, G. H. New Eastern High School at Washington, D. C. American School Board Journal, 67:56–58, 125, August, 1923.

Winston-Salem's New High School. American School Board Journal, 70:83-86, 130, January, 1925.

ITTNER, W. B. New Washington Gladden High School of Columbus, Ohio. American Architect, 122:347-52, October 25, 1922.

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